I've done my share of phlebotomy and I heard the "so it's not blue then?" at least once per hour. Along with the line from Tony Hancock, "A pint, that's almost an armful!" (google it if you're not British enough to have seen that show from the 60s!). Warfarin (coumarin) patients would claim to be able to tell how "thin" their blood was by looking at it (despite the drug merely reducing the activity of some enzymes - it's not like making gravy where you add more water to make it runnier!) and the one that pissed me off each and every time was the thrice-hourly comments about me being a vampire.

Thats good! I once did an informal survey on a babymama forum. Of over 200 replies, over 70% believed that blood inside the body is blue, and it is only red when it comes in contact with room air oxygen.

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